The latest news and events from the LRC's 'For A People's Railway{/exp:xml_encode}' campaign. http://l-r-c.org.uk/ en-GB Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:42:21 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/back-the-rmt-campaign-against-network-rail-cuts/ RMT and TSSA members have voted for strike action for four days from 6th April against cuts by Network Rail. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:39:50 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/lrctv/watch/rmt-network-rail-workers-lobby-mps-over-job-cuts/ Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary, and John McDonnell MP, RMT Parliamentary Group Chair, interviewed about the campaign against Network Rail cuts Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:34 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/rmt-eurostar-cleaners-fight-for-justice/ There is an important fight for justice and respect being waged by RMT members working for the Carlisle Group cleaning the Eurostar trains at St Pancras International. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:24:07 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/press/lrc-calls-for-full-and-permanent-public-ownership-of-rail/ The Government has today annuounced that it will take over the East Coast Mainline rail franchise vacated by National Express, which has failed to meet its contractual obligations for the franchise which it won in 2007. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:28:18 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/lrctv/watch/boris-keep-your-promise/ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:30:35 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/press/london-mps-call-on-mayor-to-keep-london-living-wage-promise-for-tube-cleane/ London Labour MPs will today hand in a letter to Mayor Boris Johnson at City Hall, calling on him to fund the London Living Wage for all London Underground cleaners. MPs will also be tabling an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons demanding “urgent remedial action from the Mayor as Chair of Transport for London to improve cleaners’ working conditions”. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:59:08 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/lrctv/watch/rmt-cleaners-lobby-mayor-johnson/ John McDonnell MP attends the RMT cleaners demo outside City Hall, London to demand the London Living Wage for London Underground cleaners. The demo is being addressed by Jeremy Corbyn MP Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:34:47 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/lrctv/watch/bob-crow-on-london-underground-strike/ Tue, 05 May 2009 13:20:43 GMT http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/rmt-lobby-for-a-peoples-railway/ Rail bosses are using the recession as an excuse to attack jobs and conditions and cut back on services and essential rail works, and hike rail fares - as LEAP research suggested they would.